282 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



tolerably plentiful on the sand-flats on the coast, but very 

 Vild and very dijBficuIt to shoot. The call is a clear whistle, 

 and the flight is swift and close over the surface of the 

 ground:'— C.H.B.G. 



*Lobivanellus miles. 



Lohivanellus miles (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, Cat. xxiv. p. 140 

 (1896); van Oort, p. 58 (1909). 



This Wattled Plover was obtained at Merauke. 



iEgialitis geoffrojri. 



Oclitliodromus geoffroyi (Wagl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. xxiv. p. 217 

 (1896); van Oort, p. 58 (1909). 



a-l. cj ? & ? imm. Mouth of the Mimika River, llih 

 Nov.-13th Dec. 1910, and 16th-22nd March, 1911. [Nos. 

 15, 17, 55, 83, 109, 122, 1179, 1180, 1196, 1239, 1241^ 

 C. H. B. G.'] 



One specimen, No. 1196, is in nearly full breeding- 

 plumage. The soft-parts are similar to those of a bird killed 

 on the same date which is still in winter plumage. Iris 

 dark brown ; bill black ; feet dark ash-colour. 



" This Sand-Plover was very numerous on the sand-flats 

 along the coast. At high tide the flocks would come and 

 rest on a little spit of sand either within a few yards of 

 where my camp was pitched, or near the small Papuan village 

 on the same spit. In habits it resembles other species of 

 Ringed Plovers.^'— C. H. B. G. 



.ffigialitis mongolus. 



Oclitliodromus mongolus (Pall.); Sharpe, Cat. xxiv. p. 223 

 (1896). 



a. ? . Mouth of the Mimika River, 4th Dec. 1910. 

 [No. 52,C.H.B.G.] 



The specimen has a narrow ashy-brown band extending 

 across the fore-neck. Sharpe considered that the presence 

 of this band was a sign of age and was only present in very 

 old birds. Culmen 19 mm. ( = '76 in.) j wing 139 mm* 

 ( = 5"5 ins.) 



